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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2699272" data-attributes="member: 18549">Why not puzzles?  Why not skill checks?  Why not combat?  If ability scores and skills are irrelevent to the character's decision-making and puzzle-solving capacities, why should they be relevent to any action he takes?  Just tell the DM "I climb the wall carefully and competently by finding footholds and handholds and using them like a makeshift ladder."  No need to roll Climb anymore, especially if you're a climber IRL and can advise the DM on the importance of proper grips and balancing.  No need to ever take Use Rope if you can just bring a Boy Scouts knot tying manual to each session and show the DM exactly what you do with the rope.  No need to ever roll any dice again, since you can just describe exactly what you do and the DM can describe exactly what the world does in response and then you shoot at the bad guy and the DM tells you that you miss and you say nuh uh I hit him because my character's a crack shot and the DM says no he's a ninja and dodges your bullet and you say but I have magic bullets that track him and the DM says but he's got armour that deflects bullets even magic bullets...</blockquote>